"In other words in a healthy adult male of 75 kg (165 lb) with a blood volume of 5 litres (1.3 gal), a blood glucose level of 100 mg/dl or 5.5 mmol/l means a total of about 5 g (0.2 oz or 0.002 gal, 1/500 of the total) of glucose in the blood."
"In other words in a healthy adult male of 75 kg (165 lb) with a blood volume of 5 litres (1.3 gal), a blood glucose level of 100 mg/dl or 5.5 mmol/l means a total of about 5 g (0.2 oz or 0.002 gal, 1/500 of the total) of glucose in the blood."
Do you mean, that there is 1.25 grams of sugar in 1 litre of blood? 4 grams of sugar in 5 litres of blood? (All the blood in the body) Which is physically like if you took all that out it would be a teaspoon of sugar
I guess thats assuming your a healthy non-diabetic
I have heard people talk of blood being sweet or viscous because of a high glucose level. One or two teaspoons of glucose in 5 litres of blood is unlikely to be detected.
(5g in 5,000g isn't that 1/1000 not 1/500?)
Do you mean, that there is 1.25 grams of sugar in 1 litre of blood? 4 grams of sugar in 5 litres of blood? (All the blood in the body) Which is physically like if you took all that out it would be a teaspoon of sugar
I guess thats assuming your a healthy non-diabetic
I have heard people talk of blood being sweet or viscous because of a high glucose level. One or two teaspoons of glucose in 5 litres of blood is unlikely to be detected.
(5g in 5,000g isn't that 1/1000 not 1/500?)
No that is just the blood. According to the reference in post #2 there is about 45g total in all the body fluids. Of course there is much more but stored as fat not glucose.